Skye Knives Knifemaker Site Updates and News

Dec. 2008	New Folder for sale. Get it in 2008 for £175 (instead of £195). Apart from that, as always, busy with commissions. So, should have a few new things to put up soon: a dirk, a sgian, and a dagger. If you're thinking about commissioning something in 2009, do get in touch early... Best Wishes for the Festive Season and the New Year!

Sept. 2008	Made a new page, for my old stuff, and added some things to the recent work page. Booked up with commissions until well into 2009 now - look for the results of some interesting dirk and sgian projects soon...

August 2008	Another new knife for sale. You can also check out its Progress page to see it come together. I'm working on some unusual things, in between commissions. Should be interesting...

June 2008	New knives for sale now! In between various trips (Owen's forging workshop was excellent) and the fact that we had six weeks of unbroken sunshine recently - a thing that's not been seen on Skye for thirty years! - I've managed to find time to finish off some projects and even make a start on new ones. Check them out, and see what you think...

March 2008	Check out the 'Recent Knives' page for what I've been working on lately. No new knives for sale at the moment, but all the knives listed at Duncan House are currently available if you want to enquire about any of them. I'm away down south to a forging workshop, run by Owen Bush in Kent, at the end of this month. It'll be good to get off the island - still waiting for spring, which comes late here...

January 2008	Been waiting to update in hopes of having some knives for sale! However, the commissions have just kept coming, so I've not had the chance to make much else. It already looks like a six-month wait between commission and delivery this year! With this in mind, we've added a new page to show what I've been working on lately (knives in progress are still in progress, but slowly). I hope this page will mean we get back to regular updates this year... If you check out the pages of dirks and sgians, we've also added versions with much larger images (you can email to let us know which type you prefer). In other news, it's cold, wet, and dark here in the Highlands and Islands, and I'm looking forward to spring.

August 2007	Added a new workshop page with pictures of the forge, workshop and kitchen! Also the latest sgian dubh commission, which matches the Parallel Highland Dirk.

August 2007	Still very busy with commissions. (You can see some of them on the new Clan Crest Sgian Dubhs page.) One new knife has gone straight down to Duncan House though. I'm still waiting for a chance to finish off and photograph the tantos... in fact, I'm looking forward to the winter, when I hope to get a chance to work on some of my own projects, and forge with my new steel! However, it'll be a shame when summer's over, because we've been unusually lucky with the weather this year - Skye and the West Highlands normally get most of the rain in the UK, but this year we've not only escaped the floods, but had a lovely dry summer.

July 2007	Very busy with commissions right now (if you're interested in commissioning something for this year, do get in touch soon!) so only one new knife. I'm planning to put two tantos up here soon though, so do check back. My knives have been selling fast down at Duncan House, so I'm afraid many knives are no longer available here. In other news, it's really summer now on Skye, so I'm enjoying the long days and warm weather - it doesn't last long!

June 2007	Well, I've got lots of knives in the pipeline at the moment, but none finished. This is an interim update, to let you know which of the knives for sale have been moved to Duncan House or sold. (Promise to do another soon with the new things I'm working on.) A fine wee folder has become available though, check it out... Thanks for your kind comments about the new site: I'm still working on the pop up images when I can, but at the moment I'm mostly trying to get some knives ready!

May 2007	As you can see, we've done a major site re-design - hope you like it! Please let us know what you think... The main idea was to make the site easier to update (so we can do that more regularly) as well as to add new content, and get rid of some of the oldest images and information. I also wanted to improve the gallery pages, with bigger, better images, rather than text-based as before. We're still in the middle of things, and will be adding high-quality images in separate windows soon, as well as more Workshop pages. It's hard to find the time though, because I'm busy forging!